The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman.

Chapter 2687 Hollywood Rhapsody (45)

Chapter 2687 Hollywood Rhapsody (Forty-Five)

This completes Schiller's backstory.

But Stark didn't know that Schiller also had to complete his own backstory, mainly because he couldn't understand anything beyond the fourth wall, so he didn't know that the character's backstory was in the form of a comic storyboard, and naturally he had no way of knowing Schiller's motives.

But he can infer from the results who is the biggest beneficiary of his and Schiller's time-travel activity?

Stark didn't think that this kind of past had any extra benefits for Schiller. If he really wanted to change, why not change it to a past where he lived peacefully until he grew up?

So in Stark's view, the biggest beneficiary of this past change is himself.

First, the deaths of both Howard and Maria were changed to Howard faking his own death, with Maria staying by his side the entire time, and Howard returning later on.

Although the final outcome is the same, Howard and Maria are still alive, but it is completely different for Stark, the person involved, because his biological mother was by his side in all the sad, depressed and dark moments of his life.

Stark carefully went through the details of his years with Maria in his mind. Even the terrible hallucinations could not disturb him. For him, every moment of the past twenty years was a good time.

Secondly, because of Maria's existence, she has always been in charge of the logistics work. Although Pepper later joined the company and became Stark's personal assistant, she was not as busy as in the previous timeline. Most of the time, she was still helping Maria. After all, how can a personal assistant compare to a biological mother?

In the past, whenever Stark went crazy, it was Pepper who would persuade and coax him, and then clean up the mess for him. But Maria has a natural advantage in doing these things. No matter how arrogant Stark is, he can't do anything if Maria glares at him.

Not only is the stomach an emotional organ, but so is a woman's uterus. Not getting angry so much has helped Pepper's health improve a lot, and she hasn't developed uterine fibroids since then. She also didn't suffer from physical weakness and shortness of breath after becoming pregnant. Now Pepper is much healthier.

Finally, Stark felt that his mental stability had improved a lot. He knew that if he relied on his previous mental strength, the hallucination would not be able to dissipate so quickly.

As mentioned before, Stark himself is not a mentally stable person, he is born with an anxiety tendency.

But it must be said that the death of both his parents was also a major turning point in his life. The mental stimulation brought about by this event can be said to have added a heavy burden to his already poor mental stability. He has been carrying this pain for many years, and later it has become a chronic illness that cannot be cured.

The death of both parents is more like severing all past ties with this world, because the person who brought you into this world is no longer there. This is a kind of despair in a philosophical sense.

But if only the father dies and the mother is still alive, at least there is still a way forward in life, and more emotions can be poured into the surviving relatives, giving the emotions an outlet.

After experiencing this change, Stark's mental stability became much stronger than before. Even the effects of the anxiety disorder that had been plaguing him began to gradually subside. Stark had never felt that the world was so clear.

He has always been like an athlete who keeps moving forward with a heavy sack tied to his body, or he didn't even know the existence of these sacks. He thought that life was so heavy and painful.

But one day these sacks suddenly disappeared, and the sense of relief that came from suddenly seeing the light was far beyond the reach of the confusion and drowsiness caused by suppressing the illness with medication.

So Stark is the biggest beneficiary of this series of actions, and Schiller's behavior of traveling back in time is regarded by Stark as the best way for a psychologist to treat anxiety disorder - to solve the problem directly from the source.

Stark actually knew that the reason why Schiller was hanging around him every day and trying to cure him was because they both knew that Stark's disease was incurable and it was a terminal illness.

Although mental illnesses may sound more hopeless, the fact is that such illnesses are longer and more painful than physical ones, tormenting not only patients but also doctors.

Diseases like cancer are theoretically incurable, and doctors are aware of this, so they don't feel such a strong sense of guilt. If they have to blame someone, they can only blame God.

But this is not the case with anxiety disorders. People know very little about this type of disease, do not think it is a very serious disease, and cannot deeply understand the pain of this disease.

For doctors, curing such seemingly minor diseases seems to be their duty. If they cannot even do this, they would seem useless.

Many young doctors have this question: it doesn’t seem to be a serious illness, so why does it keep coming back and can’t be cured?

This will cause many doctors to fall into self-doubt, and then gradually realize a fact that is completely inconsistent with common sense - this disease cannot be cured, no matter how high their professional level is.

This is a huge blow to a doctor and may even become a nightmare that haunts them forever.

Stark also knew his condition. He knew better than anyone that this was an incurable disease, so he never said to Schiller, "You take so much of my medical funds, how come you can't even treat anxiety disorder?" He even denied that he was sick to an extreme so as not to drag anyone down.

Stark has always been unwilling to drag anyone down.

But Schiller always seemed to be able to find a way out of countless dead ends, and he found the only solution to this incurable disease.

What makes Stark feel even more complicated is that he knows that Schiller is a person who hates resetting the timeline. Although it seems that the result has not changed now and Maria and Howard are both alive, this means that many of Schiller's previous efforts have been wiped out.

For example, going to negotiate with Death, trying to find a way to resurrect Maria and Howard. In the modified time and space, none of these exist. Maria and Howard were not dead in the first place, so naturally there was no need to resurrect them.

This can be said to have broken Schiller's principles, and even made some of his previous actions to prevent the universe from restarting seem a little ridiculous, but what humans are disgusted with is never double standards, but the fact that the object of double standards is not themselves.

Once the object of double standards becomes oneself, then double standards become a willingness to break principles for you, and people will only regard this as their lifelong luck.

The same goes for Stark. He doesn't regard this as a doctor's obsession, but rather a friend's obsession.

But thinking of this, Stark felt awkward. Schiller had put in so much effort to change his past, so how could he repay him?

Of course, people often say that there is no need for rewards between friends, but Stark just takes this as nonsense. For Stark, owing others is more painful than letting him die.

He had to think of a way.

Schiller, who finally returned to his bedroom in Arkham Sanatorium, breathed a sigh of relief. These two turkeys had caused trouble for him. This was retribution!

Ultron can't help but ask, "Where is the retribution?"

Schiller blew on his scalding coffee and said, "They don't know that I traveled back in time to complete the background story. They must think I did it for them."

"Just wait and see. It won't be long before they start looking for ways to repay me."

"Is there any problem with this?" Ultron asked again.

"What do I have to give in return?" Schiller said. "Besides one little glitch in my backstory, I'm impeccable. What else can they give me in return?"

Ultron thought for a moment and then said, "It seems they have been trying to heal you."

"But I can't be cured." Schiller said bluntly: "If they could cure me, Anatoly would not have scratched his head so much. He is a real ruthless person."

Schiller thought for a moment and said, "I should try to make them understand that it is not some force majeure that has made me what I am now, but I have always shaped myself."

"If they keep thinking I have a problem, they'll keep dwelling on the past, trying to find the problem that made me the way I am now, but that problem doesn't exist."

"Anatole has tried to do the same thing before. He knows my true past and he also thinks that what happened to me is the culprit for my current situation."

"But he soon found out that it wasn't like that. I was unlucky to have experienced those things, but even if I wasn't so unlucky, I wouldn't have become a normal person. When I was growing up, I didn't want to be a normal person."

"Why?" Ultron asked.

Schiller showed a look of reminiscence, and said: "At that time, I felt that ordinary people were too weak. If I had to use my powerful abilities to exchange for a normal mental state, I would not be willing to do so. Don't you think this is a loss?"

"Then why did it change?"

"I wanted to be an ordinary person purely because I met doctors and nurses. They thought it was good to be an ordinary person. I wanted to do this to meet their expectations."

"Just for this?"

"Not exactly." Schiller said thoughtfully, "The lives of ordinary people they showed me are really good. I don't know how to describe it. It makes me feel that it's not bad to exchange my abilities for this kind of life. At least it's not a big loss."

"It seems that they are indeed very happy." Ultron commented.

"They are just too ordinary," Schiller said. "Their lives are unremarkable, and they are not happy every day, but they are quite good at enjoying themselves. The driving force that enables them to have fun in such an ordinary and boring life is what I really want."

"I can't understand it." Ultron said, "Sometimes I always feel that humans are too easy to satisfy themselves. I don't know how they comfort themselves. It seems completely irrational."

"That's right." Schiller nodded empathetically and said, "The positive emotions their experiences provide are totally disproportionate to the emotions they feel. Where does the extra happiness come from? That's what I want to know."

"They are good at pleasing themselves," Ultron said. "Sometimes they are so good at it that they seem to be unwilling to make progress, or even self-deceiving."

"We are just jealous that we can't deceive ourselves." Schiller pointed out sharply, "I still have some hope, but you are completely impossible."

"Don't talk about that, sir. I don't want to become Jarvis." Ultron snorted and said, "And if I go out to entertain myself every day, what will you do?"

"It's not like I have to..."

"Then let's first settle the information technology consulting fees for these time travels."

"I think you're doing pretty well."

Finally filled it up!

But it’s not over yet…QAQ